Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Broadcast FM is crap!

2012-02-19 Thread David I. Emery
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 03:19:21PM -0500, Marcus D. Leech wrote: So, on a related topic, how do commercial FM-MPX receivers maintain proper balance between L-R and L+R -- do they just have a gain control that they tweak at the factory and glue in place? If the gain balance is off,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] [noaaport] NOAAPORT DVB-S2 VCM Question

2011-06-11 Thread David I. Emery
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 07:40:54PM +0300, Patrik Tast wrote: Hi All, As you all know, VCM is short for Variable Coded Modulation. As I have read on your forum, the new DVBS-2 NOAAPORT transmission is variable. So far I have noted that users use 8PSK demodulation and FEC?. FEC?, due to

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] udp source - endianness anomaly?

2009-10-11 Thread David I. Emery
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:16:11AM +1300, Richard Clarke wrote: Hi All, I was wondering if anyone has had any issues with the interpretation of shorts by the GNU Radio udp source function, when the shorts are transmitted from a big endian based platform? In my situation I am transmitting

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] New external clock board for USRP

2009-09-24 Thread David I. Emery
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:00:34AM +0400, Alexander Chemeris wrote: Power will be taken from USRP 6V, clock output will be SMA to connect to USRP directly. Frequency control will be accessible over RS-232 (aka COM-port) with simple text-based protocol. We're going to use ATMega for this.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Carrier Phase Recovery

2009-04-04 Thread David I. Emery
On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 11:16:42PM +0500, Sajjad Sarwar wrote: I am doing my UG project on optimized packet radio in SDR. Presently, I am using costas loop block but i think it's recovering only the frequency of local oscillator but not the phase. Please correct me if i am wrong. Now the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] DV Dongle - AMBE USB Device

2008-03-21 Thread David I. Emery
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 04:23:00PM -0500, Rick Parrish wrote: Jeff Brower wrote: All the standardized codecs that I know of, both ones with IP rights requirements and free ones, provide a reference design, typically fixed-point C code plus test vectors. I wonder why DVSI has not done the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] DV Dongle - AMBE USB Device

2008-03-19 Thread David I. Emery
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 07:38:13PM -0500, Rick Parrish wrote: Jeff Brower wrote: If you're looking at low bitrate codecs for GNU radio, why use a hardware (dongle)dependent solution? You might look at MELPe, which provides 600, 1200, and 2400 bps,and can be implemented as a software

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Frequency Offsets in RFX 2400

2008-01-11 Thread David I. Emery
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 06:46:46AM -0800, Johnathan Corgan wrote: David I. Emery wrote: A hack I have thought about adding to the USRP FPGA code (but not implemented yet) would allow collection of the count in a continuously rolling 64 MHz counter driven by the current 64 MHz clock

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Frequency Offsets in RFX 2400

2008-01-10 Thread David I. Emery
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 08:46:09AM -0600, LRK wrote: While the 'right' fix would be to supply a stable frequency source to the USRP, it would be difficult. Not impossibly difficult... it would, however, have been nice to have a VCXO option for the USRP-1 that would have allowed

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Soft-DVB working flawlessly

2007-11-26 Thread David I. Emery
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 11:18:53AM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: Quoting John Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED]: John Gilmore schrieb: I can already think of one use that others can make of your transmitter. EFF and I are interested in measuring the DRM responses I am interested in a dvb-s receiver,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Questions on US digital cable ...

2007-08-15 Thread David I. Emery
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 10:55:40AM -0400, Vijay Ramasami wrote: Thanks for the information David. I will look up ITU-J.83B ... Do you happen to have any captured QAM cable data (or any website that lists the data) ? I wanted to see if I can put together a software demod for digital cable ...

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Questions on US digital cable ...

2007-08-13 Thread David I. Emery
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 10:52:54AM -0400, Vijay Ramasami wrote: Hi, I have a couple of questions: 1. Does the US digital cable system follow the DVB-C standard (or one of its annexes) ? Is there any information (website) on the typical symbol rates, bandwidths (I am guessing approx 6

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] No BPSK modulator?

2007-02-27 Thread David I. Emery
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 11:01:58PM -0800, Matt Ettus wrote: (which makes me curious, does anyone use non-differential 8PSK?). Yes, satellites often do. I might add that non differential PSK/QPSK has a theoretical noise advantage if some mechanism exists to figure out the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] RDS / TMC / DAB / DVB-S/T ?

2006-10-14 Thread David I. Emery
On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 06:49:03AM -0700, Eric Blossom wrote: The USRP could receive the raw signals for DVB-T in the 6 and 7 MHz wide channel format. The 8 MHz wide version could be somewhat degraded because of filter rolloff at the edges of the passband of the digital downconverter in the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] RDS / TMC / DAB / DVB-S/T ?

2006-10-14 Thread David I. Emery
On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 02:06:01PM -0400, Robert McGwier wrote: David I. Emery wrote: This implies that the USRP with a 6 to 8 mhz bandwidth might be able to successfully demodulate the SCPC DVB-S QPSK video transmissions at symbol rates like 3.9876 megasymbols/sec (5.5 mbs

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Homing in on the mystery of Pulsy McGrooder

2006-09-13 Thread David I. Emery
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 10:05:56AM -0400, Marcus Leech wrote: There are double pulses that I'm seeing, with variable timing between the main pulse and the sub-pulse. The other 1350Mhz radar is much further away from me, but perhaps the sub pulses I'm seeing are coming from the other radar

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Homing in on the mystery of Pulsy McGrooder

2006-09-12 Thread David I. Emery
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 08:01:51AM -0400, Marcus Leech wrote: David I. Emery wrote: The transponders are 1090/1030 mhz and not 1350. 1350 is just radar. There are double pulses that I'm seeing, with variable timing between the main pulse and the sub-pulse. The other 1350Mhz

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Homing in on the mystery of Pulsy McGrooder

2006-09-11 Thread David I. Emery
On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 11:30:47PM -0500, Rick Parrish wrote: *giggle* Marcus ... that's an aircraft transponder. Except for some vintage 1930's aircraft that don't have an electrical system - every plane / helicopter has one. Hit Google or Yahoo! for Mode-C and Mode-S transponder.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MovieBeam

2006-06-02 Thread David I. Emery
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 10:30:36AM -0700, Matt Ettus wrote: Just read about MovieBeam on Slashdot. They mention that it piggybacks on a PBS signal. I assume they mean a digital TV channel, but they have a very small antenna. While I have no specific inside information at the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] frequency tuning word quantization

2006-03-07 Thread David I. Emery
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 12:03:33PM -0800, Eric Blossom wrote: Good question. I've wanted to revisit it myself too. As I recall it was to reduce the spurs in the DDC output. If you get a chance, please see if you can find relevant papers. I suggest searching for DDS spurs, or something like

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] DBSRX Noise Figure

2005-11-29 Thread David I. Emery
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 05:12:11PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 16:33, Matt Ettus wrote: A useful application would be to control a calibrated noise source and measure the power in a given bandwidth with it on and off. This is how a noise figure meter works. Noise